Moss Park Historical Tours

Banner photo is of Queen and Sherbourne, looking NW, on July 3, 1923. Courtesy of the City of Toronto Archives.

Hello all!

I’m very pleased to announce that Amazing Moss Park – a wonderful community group made up of residents and business owners – has invited me to lead two historic tours of the neighbourhood on Saturday, April 28th.

The first tour will explore the history of William Allan and his Moss Park estate, as well as the neighbouring homes and businesses which shaped the city in the early 19th century.

The second tour will take a look at how industrial growth in the late 19th century would reshape the area and characterize it for decades to come.

Thank you so much for the amazing history tour Katherine !!! I absolutely loved it, it was very interesting and engaging presentation from you, from now on I will look at the Toronto streets and buildings with a different eye because of this great tour !! Thanks for your time and efforts and thanks to everyone who make this happen !!!

I'm a Toronto gal, born and raised, and I love my city. But more than the Toronto you find today - with its spiky glass towers scratching at the sky - I love the bones of the place it once was. The human sized buildings, closer to the ground and shaped from brick, wood and stone, decorated with tile, columns and gargoyles and claimed by names etched deeply to fend off the ages. They're becoming rarer than their bland, glass brethren but there are still many of these beauties to be discovered. Finding them and rooting out the names of the men, women and industries once housed within gives me the greatest thrill - and that joy of discovery is what I hope to share with you here.